Terms of Use

Users of this Website are subject to these Terms of Use, plus any additional terms and conditions posted on specific portions of the site.

This Website is a dynamic Website, and changes are made regularly. All information is current as of its first appearance on this site or when last modified.

Unless otherwise indicated, all items on this Website are protected by the copyright of the Coalition for Modernizing Dental Licensure (“CMDL”). The copyright extends to text and graphics, the selection, arrangement and presentation of all materials and the overall design of the site. Reproduction or republication is strictly prohibited without prior written permission, unless and to the extent specific terms posted on the website indicate otherwise.

The CMDL logo is a service mark of the Coalition for Modernizing Dental Licensure. Reproduction or republication of this mark is strictly prohibited without prior written permission.

Links may be made to this Website provided the links do not use the service mark of the CMDL. Links may not suggest or imply that the CMDL or its affiliates endorse or support the linking site, its sponsors and/or its advertisers, unless prior written permission to indicate any such endorsement or support has been granted. Framing of this Website or any of its content is strictly prohibited.

This Website is provided “as is.” Neither the CMDL nor its affiliated entities make any representation or warranties of any kind or nature, whether expressed or implied, created by law, contract or otherwise, including, without limitation, any representations of warranties, merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title or non-infringement.

In no event shall the CMDL or its affiliated members and entities be liable for any damages of any kind or nature, including, without limitation, direct, indirect, special, consequential or incidental damages, expenses or loss of profits arising from, or in connection with, the existence, operation, use or reliance on any representation, warranty, guarantee or claims contained in this website, regardless of whether the CMDL has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

Information and materials contained on this Website are offered for informational purposes only and not as practice, financial, accounting, legal or other professional advice, and cannot substitute for the individual judgement of the User. Users need to consult their own professional advisors for such advice.

Information on this Website is provided as assistance for Users and cannot substitute for the individual judgment of the User. As with all reference resources, the Website reflects information accurate at the time of its development and should therefore be used with the clear understanding that continued research may result in new knowledge or recommendations.

The CMDL does not endorse the non-CMDL resources that may appear or otherwise be referenced on the Website, if any, and makes no representation or warranties about such resources and any products or services they may provide.

Information and materials appearing on the Website that do not originate from the CMDL are not necessarily endorsed by the CMDL.

By linking to other Websites, the CMDL does not endorse the policies, practices or opinions expressed on those sites; nor does the CMDL make any representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy of any items or claims contained therein.

Individual decisions are personal choices to be made by individuals. The CMDL does not, via this Website or otherwise, encourage individuals to make any particular decision on issues addressed herein.

If you believe any content appearing on this website may infringe your copyright, please send a written notification via email or post to the ADA’s Legal, Audit & CEBJA Division:

American Dental Association
Attn: General Counsel
401 North Michigan Ave
Suite 3300
Chicago, IL 60611-4250
Email: legaldivision@ada.org

In order to be effective, the notice must substantially include the following information:

1. A statement made under penalty of perjury that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of an owner of the exclusive copyright allegedly infringed and a physical or electronic signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner.
2. Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed, or, if multiple copyrighted works are covered by a single notification, a representative list of such works;
3. Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or alleged to be the subject of infringing activity and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material. Providing URLs in the body of an email is the best way to help us locate content quickly;
4. Information reasonably sufficient to permit us to contact the complaining party, such as an address, telephone number and, if available, an electronic mail address at which the complaining party may be contacted;
5. A statement that the complaining party has a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law; and,
6. A statement that the information in the notification is accurate.

Please also note that the information provided in this legal notice may be forwarded to the person who provided the allegedly infringing content.

We may give notice to our users and content contributors by means of a general notice or via electronic mail. If you receive such a notice concerning a copyright issue you may provide counter-notification in writing to the ADA Legal, Audit & CEBJA Division that includes the following information:

1. Your physical or electronic signature;
2. Identification of the material that has been removed or to which access has been disabled, and the location at which the material appeared before it was removed or access to it was disabled;
3. A statement from you, under penalty of perjury, that you have a good-faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of a mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled; and
4. Your name, physical address and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of a Federal District Court for the judicial district in which your physical address is located, or if your physical address is outside of the United States, for any judicial district in which you may be found, and that you will accept service of process from the person who provided notification of allegedly infringing material or an agent of such person.

You may not use any of the following to obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents or information through any means not purposely made available through the website: “deep-link”, “page-scrape”, “robot”, “spider” or other automatic device, program, algorithm or methodology. You may not use any similar or equivalent manual process to access, acquire, copy or monitor any portion of the website or any content, or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of the Site or any content. Search engine result pages that regularly index sites to provide better user experiences for general searching are acceptable.

These Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois without giving effect to any conflict of law provisions thereof. All claims, actions, proceedings, and disputes arising out of this Agreement shall be commenced exclusively in the federal and/or state courts sitting in Cook County, Illinois and all parties consent to personal jurisdiction in Illinois.

Contact the Coalition

American Dental Association
Coalition for Modernizing Dental Licensure
401 North Michigan Ave
Suite 3300
Chicago, IL 60611-4250
Email: info@dentallicensure.org